The 5 Critical Succession Conversations

Are you struggling with telling your family that you do not want to work in the family business? Do you struggle with convincing your family business to try new ideas or innovations? As the owner, are you struggling with surrendering control to your successors? Do you need more separation between the business and your personal life?

Successfully navigating the succession process within a family business requires a delicate touch. In this book, we explore the difficult conversations that you may encounter along the transition journey and help you anticipate and plan for them with minimal stress. With the goal of maintaining strong family and business relationships while effectively addressing tough subjects, we cover common issues like:
- establishing boundaries to preserve business and personal life
- declining an offer to lead the family business
- changing the business vision or ways of working under new leadership
- convincing the business to try new innovations or ideas
- asking for more freedom make your mark
- addressing poor performance

Brought to you by Succession Strength’s top team of business experts including an organizational psychologist, The 5 Critical Succession Conversations: A Comprehensive Guide for the Family Business smooths your succession journey and ensures that your business not only survives, but thrives for generations to come.

About the Author

Global strategist, Rochelle Clarke, is founder and CEO of Succession Strength. Complementing her MBA from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. Rochelle brings nearly twenty years of strategy experience to Succession Strength, the practice she founded to help family businesses overcome barriers to smooth succession transitions. Balancing strategic thinking and operational practicality, she has worked with businesses of all sizes including Fortune 500 companies such as Heineken, IBM and Accenture. Rochelle has spent her career combining a variety of best practices and practical solutions to enable business success.
As Content Director of the Succession Strength’s Conversation Guides and templates, Rochelle combines her experience with that of her team of business experts that includes an organizational psychologist.